Finalist 2019

Avion

Keith Melbourne

Avion is a soft architectural system of upholstered walls with integrated seating and table elements.

The collection’s truly modular nature invites the innovative creation of contemporary workplaces by reducing the scale of spatial design to that of furniture.

Avion’s functions include desking, 2, 4 and 6 person meeting rooms, individual work pods, integrated lounging and a complimentary freestanding collection. The visual and acoustic separation achieved by the wall system creates the opportunity for these contrasting functions to co-exist in close proximity.

The highly considered proportions, functional details and sophisticated forms culminate into a luxurious collection supporting both focus and collaboration.

Design Excellence

Avion provides a capacity to embrace and respond to the experimentation and evolution occurring in modern workplaces, inviting a new approach to designing commercial environments that encourage flexibility, collaboration and focus.

The design process prioritsed creating a system with maximum modularity, offering designers the freedom to create specific configurations to elegantly and efficiently fulfil the varied requirements of a workplace. The system enables working, meeting and lounging functions to be combined in a seamless and compact manner.

The collection embodies a refined visual language of soft forms and continuous lines, creating sophisticated settings that will compliment almost any interior.

Design Impact

Within the design process, priority has been placed upon creating a system with maximum modularity, offering designers the freedom to create specific configurations to elegantly and efficiently fulfil the varied requirements of a modern workplace.

The highly considered proportions and ergonomics of this collection, paired with its true modularity, offers a more resolved and cost-effective solution to creating custom interior spaces than one-off installations.

This results in the ability to provide functional and nurturing work environments, having proven benefits in terms of creativity, productivity, health and wellbeing.

Design Transformation

The truly modular nature of Avion’s soft architecture enables the creation of holistic workplaces tailored to any building interior, providing spaces to gather, share ideas, focus on a task or simply relax. Such supportive work environments have proven benefits in terms of creativity, productivity, health and wellbeing.

Design Innovation

Avion is a new product type that cannot be described by existing categories. It is most accurately described a soft architectural system of modular wall, seating and table elements. The upholstered walls that act as the spine of Avion’s modular system create the opportunity for contrasting functions to co-exist in close proximity. This wall structure provides excellent visual and acoustic separation within a compact network of comfortable and generous workspaces. Avion invites a new approach to designing commercial environments, creating holistic contemporary workplaces by reducing the scale of spatial design to that of furniture.

Avion was conceived and designed by a multi disciplinary design team which included architecture, interior design, product design and engineering disciplines. It is manufactured entirely in Melbourne, allowing the design team to work in close collaboration with all factories during the design and development phases.

Other Key Features

Avion is an extensive collection offering holistic design encompassing many types of environments for the workplace. Categories of the system include:

  • Desking
  • 2, 4 and 6 person meeting rooms
  • Individual work pods
  • Integrated lounging
  • Integrated lighting, power, charging, tv mounting capabilities
  • The wall system is available in both high and low options.
  • Freestanding / loose collection of lounging, ottomans, screens and tables

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